John McCain invented the Blackberry

[Acro]

John McCain invented the Blackberry!

[Jonathan]

Haha, I like it. I thought it was hilarious when an aide said that, because nobody is going to drop it. Much like Al Gore inventing the internet.

Is that your site?

[Acro]

Not my site. But I was sick enough to look up the domain LOL

[whitebark]

Good find Acro!

I caught one of Gore's live presentations and the guy was very personable and funny. Too bad he didn't let American voters see more of that in 2000. Must have been too busy working on a new version of the Internet...

[Banned: dn-101]

Poor, poor John McC.
What is he going to do with all those millions his wife gave him? Is he going to buy himself a Presidency?

[ezimedia]

[Raider]

Haha, I like it. I thought it was hilarious when an aide said that, because nobody is going to drop it. Much like Al Gore inventing the internet.

The only difference is Al Gore said it, not one of his aides.

Wow! Domains would not exist if not for Al Gore....

[whitebark]

The truth is he did help get it going. And his exact quote: "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."

and

"The Internet would not be where it is in the United States without the strong support given to it and related research areas by the Vice President in his current role and in his earlier role as Senator." - Vint Cerf

Language is so much fun in political season.

[Raider]

The truth is he did help get it going. And his exact quote: "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."

and

"The Internet would not be where it is in the United States without the strong support given to it and related research areas by the Vice President in his current role and in his earlier role as Senator." - Vint Cerf

Language is so much fun in political season.

What line of crap.


Al Gore Meets the Information Highway

We have seen that Internet history cannot be easily summarized; there is no one single moment of discovery or invention. Press reports that claim the "Internet was invented in 1969" simply are not accurate; the term "internet" had not yet been coined. The most accurate summary would avoid use of the word "invent" altogether, as the Internet is not a single technology or device. One might date the birth of the Internet to the 1970s, when Kahn and Cerf began research on the Internet Protocol, or the 1980s, when it came into widespread use. But as the timeline shows, the basic underlying ideas date back as far as the early 1960s.

Clearly, then, if we take Gore literally at his word, he could not have "taken the initiative in creating the Internet." As the ARPANET moved from research to deployment, Gore was finishing college and serving in the Army in Vietnam. From 1976 to 1985, Gore served in the House of Representatives. From 1985 to 1992, he served in the Senate. The record shows that his interest in national computer networking issues became acute during his years in the Senate - when the Internet clearly was fully in operation.

So let us grant to Gore's critics that he was in no position to "take the initiative in creating the Internet." But is it possible that Gore's declaration, chosen in real time during a live-on-tape interview, could be simply a poor choice of words - sloppy speaking on his part - and that a slightly different formulation might be quite reasonably interpreted as totally accurate?

....... http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_10/wiggins/

[whitebark]

Republicans are beyond hope.

[draggar]

Republicans are beyond hope.

IMO most of today's politicians are beyond hope. I only say most because there might be one or tho who are still reasonable and logical.

The best part of an election this close and this close to election time is all the little slip-ups happen. Let the carnage begin!

[katherine]

I hear that John McCain is not very computer-literate.
Does he own a Blackberry, or can he actually use one ?

[Acro]

McCain can use the teletype, I am sure. And Morse code.